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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022, Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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TASKS, PROBLEMS, INNOVATIONS – PROBLEMS OF CREATIVITY
Czesław CEMPEL
Creativity, Technology, Risk, Games
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract Problems of creativity should be defined and analyzed in terms of tasks, problems and innovations. Creativity is implemental and productive (product – making). The author presents the three – dimensional synthesis of areas of human creativity. Ignorance in science is not so harmful as in engineering [...] Read more.
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POWER OF EXPERTS („EXPERTOCRACY”) IN A POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY – A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CHALLENGE OF PRACTICE
Małgorzata MOLĘDA-ZDZIECH
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract The aim of this paper is to show the concept of a knowledge economy and society in a postmodern context. According to the Author, this context emphasizes the role and significance of experts, even as some form of power - "expertocracy". At the same time, experts’ authority highlights the role and [...] Read more.
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THE IDEA OF A CIVIL SOCIETY VERSUS A COUNTRY AND CITIZENS
Edward KAROLCZUK
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract The idea of a civil society is strongly connected with a crisis of the feudal system and the beginning of the capitalist economy. A civil society usually prefers democracy and rebels against the country. However, in order to analyse modern societies influenced by neoliberalism and globalisation, one [...] Read more.
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DIGITAL RACISM? AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES AS TOOLS OF SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION
Jan WASZEWSKI, Maciej GURTOWSKI
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract This article examines one dimension of the changes in surveillance: the way in which dataveillance influences social segregation and emergence of the new forms of discrimination. The paper begins at presentation of the key concepts in surveillance studies. One of them is the creation of ‘data doubles [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF LIFE IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Rafał ILNICKI
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract It is argued that what constitutes human in technological society is bare life which is shaped by different technological systems. This means that human life is hardly graspable in terms of conscious existence. Analysis in this article focuses on the concept of the technological society developed by [...] Read more.
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CHANGE - TRANSFORMATION - BIG DATA: MUTUAL COUPLING
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract The article aims at clarifying semantic and functional differences between change and transformation as seen within the cultural context. Attention is focused on processes of change/transformation brought about by the digital technologies. The social change caused by these technologies is frequently [...] Read more.
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MAN AND HIS PLACE. AROUND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIRTUAL WORLDS BY TOM BOELLSTORFF
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract The article discusses the concept of Tom Boellstorff, which he himself called anthropology of virtual worlds. There is considered a problem of finding a place in the virtual space, and especially in virtual worlds like Second Life. And hence it describes the anthropological approach of Boellstorff to [...] Read more.
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FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO POST HOMO. THE HUMAN BEING ON THE ROAD OF ACCELERATED CHANGES OF IDENTITY – HUMANITY. INDEX OF QUESTIONS
Jan SZMYD
Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015, Publication date: 4 May 2015
Abstract The main thesis of this paper: The human being in the context of modern technical and information civilization is deeply submitted into accelereted changes of his kind, in evolutionary human metamorphose, e.g. he is a subject of thorough a changing as mankind; changing of his nature essence and humanity [...] Read more.
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EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE STRATEGIC DILEMMA OF GEORGIA, 1990-2010
Vazha KAKABADZE
Varia: Political Transformations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 2 December 2014
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FROM GLOBALIZATION WAVES TO GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
Andrew TARGOWSKI
Prospect Thinking in Action
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 2 December 2014